Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Front No. 3. From the Guadarramas, scene of the great Italian rout of March, round Madrid and down to Toledo are the strongest, finest fortifications in the entire line, works of which any World War engineer might be proud. Once again last week Rightist troops were assembling for still another attack on Madrid, urged on by German staff officers with the knowledge that few of their own men would be engaged...
...should agree to a scheme of withdrawing all volunteers now fighting in Spain. Neither Rome, Paris nor Britain seemed likely to take an adamant position in the tri-power negotiations now under way on Spain, and prospects were for groping toward a compromise. General Attilio Teruzzi. staff commander of Italian volunteers in Spain, was said in reliable Rome quarters to have come to report in person to II Duce, will advise the Dictator as to probable war results in Spain of making any move or combination of moves touching "volunteers," "Non-Intervention," "pirates," "belligerent rights...
...Boomer's idea, the art exhibition was suggested by a 29-year-old German girl named Maja B. (for Johanna)* Geek, a secretary in the Waldorf's foreign department. Herself the owner of an inn in Baden-Baden, placid Miss Geek has been greeting German, French and Italian visitors for the Waldorf since 1932. She arranged her first Waldorf workers' show last year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas...
...Duce was quick to understand the political advantage of producing what looked like 100% Italian films with all the advantages of Hollywood imported technicians, cameramen, designers...
...Just in time to attract Legionnaires on the morning after their big parade (see p. 12), the Museum of Modern Art hung up a selection of gruesome war etchings by German Otto Dix, who spent four years on the Western Front, and a dynamic painting, Armored Train, by Italian Gino Severini, one of the Italian Futurists who discovered about 1915 that war was both hygienic and beautiful...